I went to the doctor today for my regular bi-weekly visit.  This baby is totally right in the middle of normal everything for now.  My belly measured one week ahead but the doc says that could very well even out.  Baby is gaining about 1/2/pound a week.  We had a discussion about how most babies now are above average in weight.  Average being what the OB info says and that’s about 7 pounds.  Babies now are generally much bigger than that at about 8 pounds.  I just have a feeling that Gage is going to get pretty big.  Maybe not, but I have a weird feeling about it.

We scheduled all the rest of my appointments today and that was weird.  It makes the end just seem so soon now.  I only go like 6 more times before baby gets here.  I know that time is going to go really fast in the next few weeks.  I really hope I can get myself prepared by then.  The only thing I really have left to do is go on the tour of the maternity ward.

Oh, I forgot to talk about this before.  My Mom bought me a ton of baby clothes from someone that took really good care of her stuff.  She brought it all when she came for Christmas and Lord, it is alot.  Gage has so much clothes now that it isn’t even funny.  His whole entire dresser is full and there are things hanging up.  It is all size 0-3 and 3-6 months.  Sheesh.  No more baby clothes purchases for me.  I have been put on restriction.  I wish I could find more things that weren’t blue or had puppies on it though.  Girl stuff is so much more exciting.  You know I’ll be having another just to make sure I get to have a girl.  Girl clothes just makes me melt.

3rd and final trimester is here!  I cannot believe it.  Back on day one when I found out and I felt like caca, I never thought I’d make it to this point.  I’m on the home stretch now.  Gage will be here before I can even get my mind ready for it.  That blows me away.  Having a baby is fun……. Sometimes.

Today we went for my gestational diabetes test and ultrasound.  First, let’s get to the details about the test that everyone dreads so much.  The hardest part for me was probably not eating any candy past midnight.  I was pretty hungry in the morning when I got up but nothing I couldn’t manage.  Make your appointment early and close to lunch.  They all want to get out of there so they will see you pretty fast.  I went at 10am on a Friday.  The orange drink stuff wasn’t bad at all.  I am a complete wuss when it comes to drinking stuff and it was no big deal at all.  It was a fairly small bottle and it was ice cold.  I had imagined in my head that this warm bottle of something the consistency of maple syrup in a gallon jug was going to be handed to me.  Nice surprise that it wasn’t like that at all.  Now I just have to wait for the results.

I gained 5 pounds this month.  I only gained 8 for the whole first 5 months and then, wham!  I have a little bit of a preggers belly now though so I’m happy.

Apparently that pain that I’ve been having in my left side by my heart is called Splenic Flexure Syndrome.   Basically, my colon is all squished up in my ribs cause baby is pushing it up and gas and food gets kind of stuck and I have pain.  Can’t do much for it but take Gas X and hope for the best.  I did that tonight and it seemed to work.  I didn’t have pain after I ate.  That crap really really hurts.  No, really.

Baby looked really good on the ultrasound.  He weighs 2 pounds and 8 ounces.  That puts him in the 50th percentile.  Right smack in the middle of average.  All his parts are measuring exactly where they should be – 27 weeks and 5 days.  I got a profile picture of him like I have been wanting but it’s still not great.  Little booger is down by my cervix and so there isn’t enough fluid to get a good picture.  The sonogram tech showed me where all his body parts are in me though and so I have been totally wrong about what I thought was where.  His bum is over on my left where I feel all the movement.  I thought his legs were there.   And for those of you that may have gotten this info wrong from the “What to Expect” book, my doc today told me how to do kick counts and that book was totally off.  It had me worried for nothing.  The book says that you should feel 10 movements in 10 minutes and doc says to lay on your left side (book left that out) and you should feel 5 movements in 30 minutes.  You can count any kind of movement – kicks, twirls, rolls, anything.

I also scored a really nice bassinet today from a lady on craigslist for $30.  It’s the kind with the drop down side (not the co-sleeper though).  Really cool.

Belly is getting bigger, I do believe. It is making everyday stuff a pain to do. I had to have help from husband tonight with polishing my toes.  I feel like it’s huge and I’m not half as big as most girls that are as far along as I am.  We are a week and a half from the 3rd Trimester.  I’m starting to get nervous.  There is no more planning to do really.  I just have to do it now (labor and raise this kid) and that scares me silly.

I’m feeling pretty decent.  My bladder infection comes and goes and I have this weird stomach thing happening but not much to complain about considering what could be happening.   I think I’m gaining some weight now too.  It only makes sense since Gage is probably in there just growing at an insane rate of speed.  We go next week for my Gestational Diabetes test and another ultrasound.  You know how I LOVE those.  Maybe we’ll finally get a good profile picture of him.  I don’t have any.

My latest pregnancy gripe is pants.  I cannot find ONE pair in all of maternity land that will stay up on my ass.  I went and bought one of those belly-picker-upper belts just so I could wear it over my pants to hold them up!  It helps but as soon as I sit down it scrunches around my ribs and I have to take it off and adjust it.  I guess it’ll be good though for when I’m walking around for a long time.

I’m feeling lots of kicks and movements now.  That part is making all the other crap worth it.

I had a dream that the doctor missed two other babies in my uterus and now we were having triplets.  One of them was a minature horse though and he would weigh 40 pounds at birth.  That was the explanation for why I was feeling kicks.  I was like “but I’m not a horse” and the doc told me that “some people just have an animal instead of a baby”.  We were going to name him Buttercup.